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How Thousands of Black Farmers Were Forced Off Their Land
Kali Holloway, November 1, 2021, The Nation
In 1883, less than 20 years after emancipation, Curtis Gentry bought
nearly 1,500 acres of undeveloped land in Shiloh, a rural community in
the Alabama county where he had once been enslaved. Alongside his
brother Turner, with whom he was able to reunite after
emancipation—unlike the members of so many other Black families—Gentry
cleared that property, uprooting trees, brush, and undergrowth. Once the
land was arable, he planted and harvested an array of crops, including
ribbon cane, corn, and peas.
“He was a hard worker,” Bernice Atchison, Gentry’s granddaughter-in-law,
told me. “Not only did he clear his own land, but he took jobs helping
white people clear their land.” He taught his family how to take care of
the farm while he worked on other people’s farms, bringing in extra
money to the household.
Gentry’s children continued to farm after their father’s death, and
each subsequent generation was trained in the ways of tending to their
inherited land trust. When Atchison married Gentry’s grandson Allen in
1953, the young couple were given charge of nearly 280 acres of
farmland, which included amenities built by those who came before. “We
had a ribbon cane mill that made syrup. We had a saw mill. There was an
old still that they had used to make whiskey back in those days,”
Atchison said. “I loved farming, because you have to come to understand
the land.”
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